ScottA
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Your dissertation shows that you do not even understand what being born again is...and yet you proclaim untruth, as if it were the truth.The new birth happens through baptism.
Galatians 3:26-27 King James Version (KJV)
26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
27 For(BECAUSE) as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ(THE SON OF GOD).
Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead: Which is to say, through the faith of the Resurrection, which is the operation(work) of God.
And so being raised with him through baptism the scripture below is applied, that is the day they were begotten of God: Children of the Resurrection: born from the dead.
Acts 13:33 King James Version (KJV)
33 God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
As it is written:
There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: BECAUSE no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the SPIRIT of God.
Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of THE WOMB and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the SPIRIT of God.
That which is born of A WOMAN is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit: YOU CANNOT TELL THAT THEY ARE FROM HEAVEN AND THAT THEY ARE GOING TO HEAVEN.
The scriptures you quoted tell it just fine: "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit." But you say just the opposite, that one who is born of "water" baptism is born of the spirit. But no one is born of water baptism, only of the flesh and of the spirit.
Your words are against Christ.